Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 36
Just to show off, he called his only son VIDHYA or LEARNING.
Who acts: Nagar · What happens: show off, call, learn · To what, where: only son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nagar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 show | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 show | mark |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 show | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 called | nsubj |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 son | amod |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obj |
| 11 | VIDHYA | VIDHYA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 son | appos |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 LEARNING | cc |
| 13 | LEARNING | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 son | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show off | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | call | past | Nagar | Nagar's only son | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | learn | gerund | Nagar not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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